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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a sixth grader and we don't allow texting. It's not that hard. Just don't do it.

And your daughter needs some social skills to build up her resilience, and perhaps you need to back away some too. I don't see anything egregious in the communications from the girls you describe as "drama girl" and "pot stirrer" - they are doing exactly what your own daughter did which is to express their opinions of someone else's behavior. Not a big deal.[/quote]

:lol:  Good luck with that one, Mom.  That will last 5 minutes. No sixth grader does not have access to a phone or computer these days.[/quote]

My daughter is in 7th and doesn't have a phone.  She uses the family computer for  a little bit of homework only.   Only in the entitled world of DCUM do you assume every 6th grader is texting away.  Elementary school is just downright terrible parenting.  [/quote]

I'm the PP with the 6th grader who has no phone. Perhaps it's different with boys, but he hasn't agitated very hard for one. He does watch endless Youtube videos on a Kindle, but it's registered under my name so I see everything. His schoolwork is done on a Google platform, where he's subject to MCPS rules. I know for sure he does not text and I see no reason to encourage that. My nephew is the same age and he has gotten into some of the same drama the OP describes through these group chats.

I have no illusions - I'm sure we'll get there eventually. But this presumption that tweens can't live without texting or a phone is just misplaced. My son is not the only kid in his group of friends who is phone-less - and we're in a Bethesda school where resources are not the reason. When there is a justification for a phone and/or texting, I'll okay it. But it won't be simply because everyone else is doing it. And it certainly wouldn't be in elementary school.[/quote]

Bethesda home-owner here. We are a low-tech household, and do not have the kind of disposable income to buy the latest smartphones for our kids, so DC1 might go into middle school without a phone. It won't be the end of the world.

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